Constituency
33. Malda
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1962
WB-MALDA
CPI 52.4%won by 22.7%INC 29.8%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Communist Party of India (CPI), which now leads by 22.7%.
- CPI vote shareCPI went from 23.5% to 52.4% of the vote here (+29.0%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 82.2% of the vote between them, up from 57.1% — a tighter two-way contest.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
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Turnout
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Valid votes
33,592
Margin
7,621
22.69%
Candidates
5 contested · winner CPI- 1DHARANIDHAR SARKARCommunist Party of India · CPI17,61552.4%
- 2NIKUNJA BEHARI GUPTAIndian National Congress · INC9,99429.8%
- 3SHAIK BAFATULLA MUKHTIARIndependent · IND4,53313.5%
- 4MONISHI KUMAR MITRAJS · JS9412.8%
- 5SAJANI SARKARIndependent · IND5091.5%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- CPIflipped
- CPI–INC swing
- +29.4%
- CPI share
- 23.5% → 52.4%
- INC share
- 30.2% → 29.8%
- Turnout
- — → —